Christians are looking for Jesus to return—bodily and visibly.
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe Jesus is a spirit and that he will never again have a physical body.
Moreover, they believe that he already has returned—that he has been invisibly present since 1914.
If Christians are right, when Jesus does return, Jehovah’s Witnesses will be terribly confused, perhaps in denial. Continue reading
Last week, I examined proof texts which the Watchtower believes explicitly teach a non-physical, spirit resurrection of Jesus.
Today, we’ll look at several experiences Jesus had which the Watchtower believes prove that he could not have been raised in a physical body. Continue reading
For the last 2 weeks, we have been looking at some of the Watchtower’s arguments against the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Today we will look at the final two arguments. Continue reading
In an effort to prove that Jesus was resurrected as a spirit creature, the Watchtower notes that Acts 10:41 says, “He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.”
Based on this, they ask, “Why did not others see him too? Because he was a spirit creature and when, as angels had done in the past, he materialized fleshly bodies to make himself visible, he did so only in the presence of his disciples.”[i]
You can answer this argument with two soundbites: Continue reading
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